skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry that goes against the every-day experience of black people in the USA; one of the reasons so many people got on the streets.
I'm a fan of static typing (but not necessarily overly strong typing) myself, but one big reason why I use Python next to statically typed languages is to write quick and dirty cross-platform-scripts where the sloppy duck typing comes in handy. Want to throw vastly different things into a single array (sometimes not even knowing what type those things are)? No problem, it just works.

This type of quick'n'dirty throw-away coding would be a lot less convenient if Python would force a strong static type system on me.

If Python is used for "real projects" with more than a few thousand lines of code, worked on by a team, static typing totally makes sense. But there are a lot of everyday tasks where this just gets in the way.
As an amateur photographer the reporting at the beginning of the pandemic was journalistic poison. Anyone even vaguely interested in photography knows about lens compression. There wasn't a single photo of a beach or a high-street I could find that wasn't intentionally composed to compress the crowds.
Ooh and stop mining Bitcoin
The tyranny of the minority – Mike Crittenden
There are also private highways and railroads, and yet the laws of the respective country apply there as well.

The laws are full of property restrictions that limit the ability of private individuals or companies to act in favor of the general interest. Our society depends on the state to impose such restrictions where necessary.
True, but the Minds hold votes more or less when they feel like it, mainly as a legitimacy-building exercise.
> any such effort would be less trustworthy than the original publication.

The idea that scrutiny would be less reliable than blind trust is absurd. The question in the OP, for example, could have been in the comments sections of these papers.
Are car licenses (whatever you want to call it) more lax in the US? In the UK it is more expensive running old cars because there's an annual "Ministry of Transport test" (which is broadly just referred to as "MOT") with really strict regulations. If your car fails it then it's not road legal.

I remember from my trips to America that even some of the well maintained cars there wouldn't have been legal in the UK. For example some didn't have orange indicators, instead using the red break lights as an indicator.
Sounds exactly like the kind of problem market economies handles very well.

Main problem is figuring out how to incorporate emissions into price signals.
Destroying old growth forests is still a bad idea even if you have enough energy to capture all the carbon.
you want 'electron everything' putting google in control of all your apps, but you don't think they're customer focused enough to do the OS ?

That sounds like its not gonna work well...

(You could problably use how well Chrome has gone as a rough indicator...)
"Only for OEMs" just means no box, lots of stores sell "OEM" parts. 5 (five) online stores in my area sell 4750Gs currently.
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> Making things out of cheap and low-impact particle boards, cardboard cores, etc, is probably the most realistic way of reducing the environmental impact.

Not only that, it being made out of particleboard doesn't necessarily make it disposable. My parents have a set of Pax wardrobes that they've had for 20 years (give or take?), and they're perfectly functional, and with some small amount of TLC (a small tin of paint) could even be classed as pretty!
But he always buys new, rather than getting furniture from a thrift store?
> It's worrying and baffling that someone's source of income can be severed when there has been no evidence of misconduct.

Isn't this a feature of at will employment?. I know there are some protected attributes, but I was under the impression you could be fired for pretty much anything outside of those protected attributes.
Yeah. QAnon believers have destroyed important personal relationships while promoting their obviously-wrong belief. Some have continued believing even when absolutely and incontrovertibly proven wrong.

Obviously they perceived the social cost of acknowledging that they were wrong as higher than the gain of getting their friends and family back. And obviously there's places they can go on the internet where this continued belief is socially rewarded.

I see correlations here with "being weak", where "strength" is correlated with not giving in, not accepting that the other person was right, not changing your opinion in the light of better evidence, etc. For some people, the ego cost of being wrong is much higher than for others. Their self-esteem is somehow connected to this belief. It's less about social, and more about ego.
When I read it, I read it like "IKEA Buys 11,000 Acres of U.S. Forest to Keep It From Being Developed for now"
Oh the safety profile is not great though

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT01876043

50% get anemia
Yeah and so is Ferrari. Wouldn't call them a Dutch company.
> The US left appear to be descendeding into full bore anti-conservative hysteria.

The corporate actors involved here are nowhere near the left, they are closer to the center-right; the problem the Trumpist faction is facing isn’t that the Left doesn’t like them, its that they’ve earned the firm enmity of the centrist factions that, even when they opposed conservatives them on certain issues, kept good relations with them because they knew the next day they might need them as allies against the Left. And, beyond that, they’ve also lost a substantial minority of the Right; the various long-time and recent Republican figures that have come out in opposition to the Trumpist faction – and not just in the usual intraparty opposition sense but to the extent of either making a dramatic exit from the Party and/or advocating for the defeat of not only its Presidential candidate but of its downballot candidates as long as the Party adheres to Trumpism is telling.

Shouting about the Left is, I’m sure, cathartic, but it is also very much irrelevant to what is going on here. That’s not where the change that is driving outcomes comes from.
I don't think beige is classy either

Now the white of the Amiga 600, that's classy
it goes back to the thrift store

Last time I moved I found that thrift stores are very picky about what furniture they accept.
Great post! :D Actually, Firecracker is so cool that we've used it to develop our own native alternative to Kubernetes based on running application containers as microVMs... https://opennebula.io/opennebula-kubernetes-comparing-two-co...
> We may not know how many bit flips occurred, but we can probably assume it's in the low single digits, right? So, try flipping each bit, and see if any one of them results in a very large improvement. If there are no matches, try every combination of exactly two bits, then every combination of three, and so on.

There are almost 10²⁰ ways to flip 3 bits in 1 MB. This approach seems unfeasible if any more than 1 bit has been flipped.
My experience with Ikea furniture is that they last - even abusive children. It is not Ikea's fault furniture is thrown away really.

Danish Design type of furniture is what breaks if you are not careful. I.e. slick nice looking chairs and what not.
I applied for the qa role. you guys can stop applying.
My guess is that the fallout of the right wing's promised "tickle down" economics and the neoliberal politics of thatcherism is making people angry.
That distinction collapsed a long time ago, before the Internet stormed the Capitol.
What does conservative mean in this context? Could you explain it a bit? Thanks!
Blame the victims? If the majority are scared to publicly state their opinions, it's somehow normal that the ones that still do it get punished. They should just be more cautious what they post, right?
An overly click baity title which actually refers to the well known reproducibility crisis. It is also unfair to paint with such a brush. Biology and the medical sciences have always been less exact and more malleable.
I think that consolidation was a lot less visible, plus people's attitudes are changing. Finally, this ship has not sailed yet, while TV is pretty much doomed.

American conservatives, being as... loud as they are, did make the issue more mainstream, but people have been bringing up these problems for as long as the internet has been around.
Then you need to read the article. This is about trying to match the paint against a pantone reference paint. This user tried to get a hex value instead, which would be completely different depending on lighting conditions
Kind of related, but I've had an idea for a while to make a user mode file system on Windows that uses a single backing file (maybe sqlite) in order to speed up builds since NTFS is very slow for large numbers of small files. Also would be nice to have integrity checking backed in. It amazes me how bad file systems are in 2021. No integrity checks, no transactions, slow/incorrect file watching, etc.

I know these features are provided by some newer file systems like zfs and btrfs, but those are not used by most consumers and are mostly used on servers.
Linking to someone's public posts isn't "doxing". Publicly sharing their personal details (private email address, home address, phone number, etc.) or other private information as a form if direct or indirect harassment is.
Split Long GitHub Action Workflow into Parallel Cypress Jobs
I'd argue today that "apps" do pretty well whether they're in a browser or native. Native Slack is pretty good. Web Google Docs/Sheets is pretty good. VSCode is almost the same regardless of where you run it. But equally, Sketch and Ableton Live are also pretty good. Native Teams and Zoom are travesties of usability and stability.

Basically, I don't see consistent patterns of good or bad between web and native apps to justify your comment that "apps are better at being apps than a web browser".

Most GUI apps, native or otherwise, get associated with a brand. Especially the good ones. I'd buy Ableton swag, I love the brand that much.

The VAST bulk of web apps are NOT browser version specific. It's largely only bespoke, internal corporate apps that are tied to one version of a browser.
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But remember that the evidence you see is often a product of your viewpoint in the first place.

People who watch/read right-wing media sources get an entirely different set of facts than people who watch/read left-wing media sources. Both are biased one way or the other. Both get confirmation from their social peers who share their beliefs.

Religion, for example. If you live in a society that is mostly religious then you will encounter proof of god's existence every day. If you live in a society that is mostly atheist, you will never encounter any proof of god's existence, and you'll wonder how anyone believes that crap.

Which is the belief based on truth?
Both these applications are open source. And even if I teach my grandma to start a VM everytime she wants to send me a message - they still have to be packaged for each and every distribution.

That doesn't seem practical.
I've been using a lot of IKEA furniture for many years, some new, some secondhand (sometimes I'm the third or fourth owner) and I must say they're quite durable unlike some of the new furniture I've bought over the year and had to throw away.
Crypto Custody Provider Hack
TL;DR

Most crypto custody providers charge a large fee (0.5% per year) for token custody. There is a hack to totally avoid paying this fee.

Description

The funny thing is that the hack described below allows anyone to totally avoid paying the fee while keeping exactly the same security. Namely, to steal the money you need to hack the provider.

Here is how it works:

You open an NFT token deposit account with a custody provider, and get a wallet address (WA)

You then deposit your money (say $1B) as well as an NFT into a smart contract SC.

To send money to someone, you first send a request to the SC. The SC records the request and sends the NFT token to WA.

You then access your custody provider wallet, and simply send the NFT token back to the SC address.

When the SC receives the NFT token, it executes the money transfer.

Note that you effectively custody $1B, but only pay to custody a single NFT token!

This can also be done using ERC-20 instead of NFT.
The stories about ZFS memory consumption are largely exaggerated. But I do take your point :)
Sunk cost is/was my conclusion. At one firm in ~2013, advertising was bringing in $600k revenue per annum - we estimated a loss of potentially triple that (!) - but the response was apathetic. There was very much a reluctance to accept that the "advert management team" (yep, they had a team dedicated to managing the adverts, who had the duty of "managing" Google Ads) would need terminating, too.
> Sounds exactly like the kind of problem

It didn't really work out so far, otherwise we wouldn't be talking about an emergency.
Hope they plan to do the same for Google Blocks too, their low poly VR 3D modelling software.

Seeing how Google took on VR now makes me frustrated when they enter any new tech. They put so much effort in right at the beginning then backout out almost instantly but crowded the market to prevent other companies building these tools. Should have been clear for anyone back then that VR was a very long term play and didn't really become viable at all for 95% of users until stand alone headsets could be made.
> Ikea is making furniture, something people really need. Why they have to explain themselves for doing something useful? What should they use to produce furniture? Would plastic be any better? Iron? Stone?

Unfortunately we live in a world where virtue signaling is more important than actual virtues and winning arguments is more important than actual winning. Yes this is a PR thing and will help to create a positive public image that IKEA hopes will help them thwart the evil eyes of the rent seeking politicians.

Note: A tree is useful and carbon negative only if it is growing a tree in forest that has stopped growing is mostly useless for offsetting carbon, if anything we need a Logging 2.0 where we cut down a lot of trees and use them for long term purposes such as furniture, housing, infrastructure etc. and plant and grow new trees.

> Why they have to explain themselves for doing something useful?

They don't have to and neither does Amazon, Google, Exxon and thousand other companies have to explain anything to the public or govermint and yet you see so many attempts by government and activists to force them to explain.
I see your point, but you can just go back to the 20th century. Anarchists bombing Wall Street in the 20's, racial and antiwar riots (and bombings) during the 60's and 70's. Right wing militias blowing up federal buildings in the 90's.

Obviously you don't want to dismiss a growing problem, but things seem much more manageable today than during these past incidents.
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Trees are a renewable resource. They grow back!

And those shitty bookshelves are way more biodegradable than if they were made out of any other material like plastic.

Proper forestry practices are much more common today even in developing countries than you think.
Happened to me after the Firefox upgrade.
I understood that this was about scrutinising papers in academic journals - the academic journal's value is quite literally its trustworthiness. (The journal exists and is employed to do the scrutiny)

A comment from any random person (in general) holds a lower level of trustworthiness.
Best companies in India giving out pay raise during Covid times
A baritone has one advantage: it is so large that the relative precision with which it is constructed is high in relation to the frequencies that it puts out so being out a half millimeter on a valve seat will not immediately have a huge effect.

Also: have you ever thought about how undefined the frequency of a sax really is? The seal is a large, round flap that drops down over a circular hole with a raised edge. Even if you open it fast there is a gradient there and no matter what you do the hole itself is shaped to practically guarantee a different frequency response for every part of its circumference! It's a miracle it works at all (same goes for flute, oboe and clarinet).
And the fact that the environmental impact isn't factored into the cost
Secure Remote Password Protocol
Well, I think blue light less disturbing if the kid sees it in the middle of the night, and more likely to get back to sleep. Also, orange looks more energetic and more appropriate for when the kid can get up. But that kind of perception is culture-dependent. I'm from Europe and this scheme seems natural to me.
> And I’d personally much rather have this small group of people outletting their anger onto the internet instead of IRL.

Venting anger on the internet and it producing no real change isn’t an “outlet”, its just a pressure cooker.

> Pushing them further and further into a corner with ever expanding censorship and expecting them to become good tolerant citizens has always seemed like a fools game to me.

Containing the various white supremacist / conspiracy cults isn’t about reforming them, its about reducing their ability to recruit and radicalize. While reforming those already in the cults would be nice, its mostly a lost cause. They aren’t, for the most part, going to become “good, tolerant citizens”.
See also: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=11815
I think making things in the way that minimises the impact at production time is the most important thing right now. Population growth is still a thing. Many people are buying furniture for the first time. If you start using hardwood for all furniture it could easily be devastating to the worlds forests.

> And then it it all ends it can became firewood, which ikea furniture can't.

Of course it can. You wouldn't burn it in a fireplace, but then fireplace is very inefficent way to burn things anyway. If you burn it in a trash burning facilities like they have in Sweden, you get the most energy out of it, you can heat local homes with waste heat in winter, and it creates less pollution (fire places are being banned in dense urban areas where I'm from). It's a fairly good solution for the seasonal energy demand in northern areas.

I personally think IKEAs approach is realistically the most sustainable, but they could improve it by improving the recycling/reuse of the wood fibers in their products.

I've used and refurbished old solid wood furniture myself. It's a luxury IMO. There's not that much of it to go around. It doesn't scale. It's not a solution to the worlds problem.

I also think the quality issues of IKEA furniture is exaggerated. I have a cheap TV table I bought as a student 15 years ago. It has been moved around several times. Seen a lot of abuse. I didn't really have a use for it in our new home so I've used it as a tool table while renovating. It still looks fine. A tiny bit bent, but still good. Can probably give it to another student to use.

If you want to say that buying long-lasting furniture is significantly better, I think you need to point to a study showing how many resources each approach uses, and the average life-span in the real-world. It's far from obvious that solid furniture is better.
Yes, though I'm pretty sure the same rationale was used for the 4000 series APUs as well.

I have a feeling that the particular market these chips are aimed at that improving the iGPU by even something like 50% is not that meaningful, it's still not going to be competitive with discrete and will nearly always be pair with one if gaming is an option on the particular laptop.

And so I suppose the rationale might be that it's just easier to stick with Vega and the current power draw for the iGPU as acceptable for the required graphics horsepower. Maybe one day we'll see an APU powerful enough to remove the need for discrete GPU in laptops, not for awhile yet though :).
I think this mostly conflates main factors affecting how hard covid-19 hits with things governments can do in the short term to contain it. Factors such as obesity and average GDP correlate much stronger with lethality, but you can’t turn those knobs overnight.

Also, I don’t think all of these say lockdowns are ineffective. The lancet study (#1 from the article) says “full lockdowns… were significantly associated with increased patient recovery rates.”

That means they can make the difference between being able to give all patients the care they need and overloaded hospitals.

Also, I don’t read that lockdowns are ineffective in #3. In my reading, it (more) says that, if you do a lockdown, you better do it fast, as that means you can keep it limited.
That's a strangely low number of connections to/from algebraic topology, especially with the shapes section.
If the area is large enough, they could actually make a literal border around it, and use change detection via satellites to notice potential settlements/activity on the inside.

You probably need a watch tower about every 1~2 km, or even less if you'd use a strip of minefield to protect against hordes.
Personally I like homebrew better https://blog.haschek.at/2020/the-perfect-file-server.html

Because I don't need web interfaces or more attack surfaces
One factor missing from conversation is timescale.
You are a bit out of date on this, wood isn't really turning into coal anymore these days, since bacteria and fungi have developed the ability to decompose lignin 300Ma ago.

The only thing comparable these days is peat bogs that act as carbon sinks (because their plant matter does not decompose due to acidic and anaerobic environment).
You are making a quantitative argument for a case that can very well be a qualitative one. Your statement is not sound and it does not follow. Maybe it consider this an opportunity to educate yourself in logic?
> I often wonder incredulously whether developers responsible for particular sites really comprehend how bad performance has gotten.

For every site I've developed and have been tasked with adding adverts, and every colleague that I have worked with that has done the same:

- Yes, we are aware.

- Yes, we doth protest.

- No, we were not successful.
LZ4 is so fast, that in make sense to use it everywhere over uncompressed data. Even storing items in-memory compressed sometimes is profitable as you can fit more items in memory.

Still zstd offers way better compression and got variable difficulty factor: https://github.com/facebook/zstd Decompression is always fast, but you can trade off compression vs. ratio factor.

In general if send data over network zstd is quite profitable. Even network attached disk AWS EBS or AWS S3 it can be a hugely profitable.
I have smaller hands as well and I do tent it slightly but then I only use the first "piano" key regularly [1]. The others on the thumb cluster are for layer keys.

My only gripe is that you can't negative tilt it, which I prefer when standing. I do love my Moonlander though.

* [1] https://configure.ergodox-ez.com/moonlander/layouts/rOjGj/la...
Supply Chain Strategies for E-Commerce
I've only quickly perused the article so far, but it immediately reminded me of the following excellent article on ArsTechnica from 2014:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitro...
I would guess it's a too risky investment for them.
From the author, who specifically stated that this task of correcting bad science is unrewarding.
LauncherOne liquid fuel light-class and air-dropped rocket reaches space
> On its second launch attempt after a propulsion problem prevented its light-class air-dropped rocket from reaching space last year, Virgin Orbit will try to deliver 10 experimental CubeSats into orbit as soon as Sunday on a mission booked by NASA five years ago for $4.7 million.

FYI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LauncherOne

I wonder how this affects the price to put cargo on space? How much cheaper than SpaceX offering this is?